Nick Harkaway Quotes

There's a saying in the movie industry that if your movie is about what you actually think it's about, you're in big trouble. I think it's the same with books.

Nick Harkaway

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If you help disabled children, it's very appealing. If you help kids with cancer, those are the things you get credit for and those things are beautiful. But when it comes to stopping violence or really putting the time into rebuilding schools, that's just a different kind of project. It takes more than just money to do that.

Jim Brown

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Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

Jerry Harrison

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My optimism for life carried through my work.

John Dyer

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The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

Andrew Lincoln

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I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

Andra Day

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I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

Maxine Waters

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Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

Robert Kraft

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Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

Simon Callow

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I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

Trisha Yearwood

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We have a failed state in Syria.

Michael McCaul

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I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

Julia Leigh

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Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning - there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it's almost like that's the only safe place to express yourself.

Johnny Flynn

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